Hands On with the New Ask.com
Ask.com relaunched Tuesday with an extensive redesign. We went
hands-onwith the new search engine, and have first impressions and
screencaptures of the new features. more

’Extremely critical’ flaws hit Yahoo Messenger
GLOBAL - Two ’extremely critical’ vulnerabilities have been
discoveredin Yahoo Messenger that could be exploited by malicious users
tocompromise a system. more

Microsoft readies four critical June patches
Microsoft is preparing to release six software updates on Tuesday. more

1B PCs worldwide by end 2008. It has taken 27 years to cross the
firstbillion mark, but it will only take less than 10 to hit the
nextbillion, predicts researcher Forrester.

Are Criminal or Board Disciplined Psychiatrists
Determining“Safety and Efficacy” of Psychiatric
Drugs?

Another breaking New York Times story published June
3rd,“AfterSanctions, Doctors Get Drug Company Pay,”
revealed thatpsychiatrists disciplined for criminal fraud convictions
and“reckless, if not willful disregard” for
thewelfare ofpatients are remaining on the payroll of pharmaceutical
companies andcontinuing to conduct drug tests on patients and serve as
paidspeakers. With 10 million children prescribed dangerous,
mind-alteringdrugs, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a
mental healthwatchdog group, is asking how much information about drug
safety andefficacy are based on studies conducted by psychiatrists with
a provenrecord of fraudulent and unethical practices.

In 1997, former president of the Minnesota Psychiatric Society,
FarukAbuzzahab, had his license temporarily suspended after five
patientsdied in his care or shortly thereafter. Further, the FDA
concluded thatthis psychiatrist had violated the protocols of every
FDA-reviewedstudy he led and had inaccurately reported data to drug
manufacturers.Despite this, Abuzzahab is still being entrusted and paid
by drugcompanies to conduct research and drug tests—since
therestrictions on his license were lifted in 2000, Abuzzahab has
beeninvolved in 11 publications or research presentations.
Abuzzahabadmitted assisting with the study of popular psychiatric
drugs,including Paxil, Prozac, Risperdal, Seroquel, Zoloft and Zyprexa;
drugswhich have all recently been revealed to have dangerous even
deadlyside effects. CCHR says that conflicts of interest and
corruptresearchers may be the reasons why it has taken so long for
these sideeffects to be made public.

Even leading psychiatrists such as Steven Sharfstein, former
presidentof the American Psychiatric Association (APA), have pointed
out thefinancial corruption in their field by publicly admitting
thatpsychiatry is improperly tied to the pharmaceutical
industry.Sharfstein stated in 2006, “We have allowed
ourselves to becorrupted in this marketplace with lucrative consulting
to industry,speaker panels, boards of directors and visits from
industryrepresentatives bearing gifts.” Daniel J. Carlat,
anassistantclinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts University,
recently said,“Our [psychiatric] field as a whole is
progressively beingpurchased lock, stock, and barrel by the drug
companies: this includesthe diagnoses, the treatment guidelines, and
the nationalmeetings.” CCHR says the vested interests of the
APA explainswhythe organization continues to vehemently oppose stronger
psychiatricdrug warning labels -- despite the fact that such
information couldsave children and consumers lives.

Despite heavy protest by the profitable psycho-pharmaceutical
industry,public pressure has resulted in governmental warnings about
the seriousside effects of psychiatric drugs—including
suicide, mania,psychosis, diabetes, heart attack, stroke and sudden
death. Thesedangerous drugs are prescribed to the general population,
includingsmall children, based on subjective
diagnoses—without anyphysical tests, such as blood tests,
brain scans or X-rays, which canconfirm the existence of any
“mental disorder.”Read CCHR’spublication, The
Report on the Escalating International Warnings onPsychiatric Drugs, to
find out more about the dangers of psychiatricdrugs.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights was established in 1969 by
theChurch of Scientology and Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of
PsychiatryEmeritus at the State University of New York Health Science
Center inSyracuse, New York, to investigate and expose psychiatric
violations ofhuman rights.

A great article and comments on non-toxic and cheaper householdcleaners
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We have been drinking alkaline water for over a year now and thereseems
to be a growing body of experience to support the value of doingso... more

New research shows vitamin D slashes risk of cancers by 77
percent;cancer industry refuses to support cancer prevention more

Cirrhosis of the Liver From a “Harmless" Soft Drink?

By Jon Herring

You can file this article under “another reason to avoid
processedfoods."

In ETR #1682, I explained that when the chemical preservative
sodiumbenzoate mixes with ascorbic acid (vitamin C), benzene forms as
abyproduct. Benzene is an aggressive carcinogen, even in minute
amounts.That’s why I strongly recommend avoiding fruit-flavored soft
drinks,which are often made with both sodium benzoate and ascorbic acid.

But now there is news that sodium benzoate itself could be
responsiblefor DNA damage. Peter Piper, an English professor of
molecular biologyand biotechnology at Sheffield University, has been
studying thiscommon preservative for the past seven years. When he
tested the impactof the substance on living yeast cells, he was alarmed
to find that thebenzoate was damaging the “power station" of all cells,
themitochondria.

Speaking to The Independent, Piper said, “These chemicals have
theability to cause severe damage to DNA in the mitochondria to the
pointthat they totally inactivate it: They knock it out altogether."

Damage the energy production capacity of a cell, and the cell willbegin
to malfunction in a serious way. Piper suggests that a number
ofconditions, including Parkinson’s, cirrhosis of the liver,
andaccelerated aging, can be linked to this type of damage.

The bottom line is this. We really don’t know what many of
the"harmless" artificial ingredients and chemical preservatives in
ourfood will do to us. In most cases, the long-term effects are
unknown.So, as always, stick to whole, unprocessed foods as much as
possible.And think twice - make that three times - about buying soft
drinks thatcontain sodium benzoate.

From the www.earlytorise.comnewsletter
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Canadian Cancer Society announces national program to prevent
cancerusing vitamin D
The Canadian Cancer Society has announced a major initiative to
preventcancer through the use of vitamin D supplements. America’s
cancerindustry, of course, insists that cancer should never be
prevented withnutrition. Ever wonder why? Read today’s “Outrage!"
article on thecancer industry, and you’ll learn why keeping people
diseased is a lotmore profitable than making them well. more

The Australian Statistician, Brian Pink, said that using
assumptionsbased on recent population trends and information from
today’s officialpopulation estimates, the ABS website Population Clock
was expected toreach 21,000,000 on 29 June 2007.

A fascinating read on supervolcanoes and further compelling
evidence(like we needed more with the current water and energy crises)
that ourleaders have lost the plot completely in terms of true
leadership: hereand
here